Your turn: Why is aging on your mind?Back to video

So we asked Gazette readers to tell us more and you responded, with both fears (losing a spouse, but not in the way you might be thinking) and hopes (contributing to the family's happiness). We also got schooled on even suggesting age was something fearful: "Age is just a number, NOT a condition."

Here is a sampling of responses and details on the respondents (results best viewed on a desktop). If you want to add your responses to the survey, please click here or keep scrolling to add your responses. (App readers, please tap the MOBILE link under Related Stories.

Barb: "My greatest hope about aging is that the media and the medical community would STOP CEASE DESIST in making getting older such a traumatic event. Haven't they heard that 70 is the new 60, 60 is the new 50, etc.? Age is just a number, NOT a condition. My husband and I are both in our early 70s and we work out six days a week; we are involved in seniors' entertainment groups where the participants perform strenuous tap dances, do the splits, etc. OMG!! The mindset out there is that we should be sitting in our rocking chairs, just waiting for the inevitable. That is BS!! Guess what? We can still dress ourselves, cut our own meat, wipe our own bums. Excuse the unladylike comment but I despise the all-too-prevalent attitude that once we reach a certain age, we are rendered useless, incompetent, feeble, redundant and...OLD! We are living longer, living better, living healthier. Get used to it, world!"

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Jean: "Not being able to care for myself and of course dying....I hope that if I were ever to go into Palliative Care that by then I would no longer fear death."

William: "Not being able to drive my car."

Sunny: "That my partner will search for someone younger."

Linda: "Keeping my mental faculties, continue learning and contributing to society in the future; and contributing to the future happiness of my children and grandchildren. At this point in life one feels that time is precious and should not be wasted; the trick is to find those things that satisfy this need and achieve a certain peace and balance. Some searching and adjustments are necessary, perhaps more for some than others. Also, there is weight of the responsibility to maintain my own health and not adversely contribute to my own decline. A complicated but interesting subject indeed!"

Brad: "Just being old. Not having done anything significant and being stuck not being able to do anything about it."

Christiane: "Hope to age gracefully and in health. Fear being at the mercy of caregivers in this uncertain health care system."

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